A freelance Chemical Engineer working in the field of Information Technology and control for the industrial and energy sector.

Male, early 40s, Northern, well read and opinionated. Always willing to adjust my views on the basis of new and compelling evidence. Avoid fads. I've never had a skinny-latte in my life, I like my coffee in a mug with a dollop of REAL milk. I drink my water out of the tap and not out of an overpriced bottle just to feed some irrational idea that it is somehow healthier. Forgetting that the healthy option pollutes the air with unwanted transport fumes getting the water from some far away artesian spring to your house. Tea should always be drank out of either a china cup at home or a chipped mug without a handle on a building site.

I write and perform poetry and my poems are as unconventional as my thoughts.

I dislike the Green Movement and other NGO's who act as self-appointed guardians, see rant below.

I'm an Atheist and while I can appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Religion and the contributions it has made to philosophical thinking I really wish the world would grow up and get over its infantile need to worship things that aren't there and stop substituting them with secular alternatives when the God lie just doesn't quite ring true anymore. See rant below.

I agree with some of Richard Dawkins opinions but think he is the worst kind of advert for atheism/agnosticism and much prefer the poster child of atheism: Johnathon Miller. Though I've always wondered why atheists have to justify their absence of belief when people who do not believe in Father Christmas, The Easter Bunny , Faeries at the bottom of the Garden or WMD are not required to justify their absence of blind faith. I'd love there to be a god, I really wish there was an afterlife it would be really comforting to think life has some meaning, but I'd also love for me to be a millionaire with a harem of PhD Playmates to make me milky cups of coffee while we chat about the plays of Bertold Brecht and I give them a foot rub, being a modern man and all. But just because you really need something or want something to be true does not make it so.

In an ideal world John Lennon's Imagine would be a world anthem. But I'm a realist and if we didn't have religion we'd find some other reason to form opposing Tribes. We'd have Fashion Fundementalists offended by Pixies boots bombing heretical shoe shops to achieve sartorial purity and the day of Fashion Rapture when the world would be the perfect catwalk.

If I could change the world I'd get rid of every weapon of mass destruction. If a country threatened world peace or oppressed their own population the offending leader would be made to sit on the UN naughty step until they'd learned their lesson. If they complained about George Bush and Tony Blair hogging most of the step and whispering about them they'd be told to stop their tittle-tattle and be friends. I'd also put a stop to wide-spread and endemic polution by making all cars electric and replacing all the power stations with nice clean nuclear ones and bury the collective waste either in big holes deep under some of the worlds deserts paying considerable compensation to the countries that volunteers to safeguard and contain the worlds waste. Or simply put it back from whence it came, after all it comes out of a hole in the ground so there is bound to be plenty of space left behind from digging it out to put it back there again.

Yes you may say I'm a dreamer and my dreams may be your nightmares. That being so, you can be sure your dreams are my nightmares. But don't worry I'll still manage to sleep well at night. Because ultimately I have faith in the great washed and unwashed masses out their that some how they'll muddle through see through the lies and conspiracies; stick two fingers up to the hate peddlers and doom merchants and tread the middle path that leads to true enlightenment and a flawed but liveable world. Power to the people!

RANT
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I consider myself to be green with a small 'g' and look on the Green Movement as little more than a Secular Religion driven by dogma. A movement that seems to see modern life as evil and is the natural home of Marxist thinkers with grand ideas of social re-engineering to create a utopia in which we are all re-engineered (Non-GM of course) and made in their image. A Utopia where our holidays are rationed, we can not use mobile phones because them there masts and phones are the devils work, a place where the laws of physics and the body of scientific knowledge is ignored in favour of a good scare story and where the Green Imperialists can crush under foot the culture of those Johnny Foreigners doing anything that offends the sensitivities of the Western Green cabal.

When the Greens happen to be on the right side of an argument it is because they happen to jump onto a scientific bandwagon as it happens to be passing. Unfortunately they then hijack it and shout down any honest debate instead foisting on us their own half-baked ill-thought solutions.

Remember this is the Green Movement that told us many years ago to embrace Green Diesel grown from renewable crops. Only to find their great idea has turned around and bitten them on the ass, resulting in the jungles of Malasyia and Brasil being torn up to produce Green Diesel!

If you followed the precautionary principle as applied selectively by the Green Movement we would cut down all the trees because someone somewhere may just get a splinter and one of them there trees might fall down and kill someone.

The Green Movement is just another unelected, undemocractic NGO that distorts our political system in the same way as all those other lobbyists trying to get our elected officials to do their thing rather than our thing.

Just as you can be christian without being a Christian (Of the rabid foaming at the mouth women hating type or the ones, who like the Greens, ignore uncomfortable scientific truths to espouse their faith, such as Adam and Eve walking with dinosaurs) you don't have to be Green to be green.

So insulate your home, get double glazing, don't use your car for that two minute journey, buy locally produced goods when it is sensible to do so and support the expansion of nuclear power. But please think twice when some Green Guru opens their mouth to preach just before jetting off to another seminar or protest somewhere in the world. If you want to see the true face of the Green Movement in all its glorious inanity just read the Oracle that is Julie Stepenson (The self-appointed Green Goddess) in The UK Independent newspaper.

Ah well off for my milky coffee and to deface the paper by writing Green Tossers above pictures of Greenpeace Activists dumping dead whales outside Japanese embassies. Wonder how much CO2 they generated doing that or did they stick it on the back of a very big bicycle and cycle it to the embassy? Do Greepeace buy carbon credits for the CO2 they produce globally?

Have a good one.

Joe
20-JAN-2006

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